From the mindlab site :
Divergent Thinking in Education
Sir Ken Robinson, chair of the UK Government's report on creativity, education and the economy, described research that showed that young people lost their ability to think in "divergent or non-linear ways", a key component of creativity. Of 1,600 children aged three to five who were tested, 98% showed they could think in divergent ways. By the time they were aged eight to 10, 32% could think divergently. When the same test was applied to 13 to 15-year-olds, only 10% could think in this way. And when the test was used with 200,000 25-year-olds, only 2% could think divergently. . . . Education is driven by the idea of one answer and this idea of divergent thinking becomes stifled.' He described creativity as the 'genetic code' of education and said it was essential for the new economic circumstances of the 21st century." signed: (TESS, 25 March 2005)
Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. Convergent thinking is focusing on a limited number of choices as possibilities. Then you choose the “right” answer or course of action from among those choices.
Design Thinking
Design Thinking has been implemented across many industries since the 1950’s as companies increase their understanding of, and need for, more divergent thinking and greater employee contribution to ideas and problem solving.
The process of applying a design thinking approach within the classroom increases student engagement, enables deeper dives into new content and greater comprehension and provides a important framework for specific learning tasks and outcomes.
Design thinking
Design thinking ... designing a prototype of changing the gift - giving process! Tracey now has a telescope to look more carefully at what to buy!
Great clip about students giving specific feedback and critique to each other... Austin's butterfly
Homework...
Week 13
Inquiry models from other schols
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1D8XpUcGpZavSzRcHGkiVRBvNVaqSHmZQIVncoA-dqd8/edit#slide=id.g10ab7b76c3_0_182
looking specifically at the model from Glenbrook School
Briefly explain the inquiry learning model:
Our own inquiry model which students use to help engage in their learning. It focuses on the Share and Act part of the process as vital to create deeper learning and feed forward.
Link to available online materials: (if possible)
Not yet! We designed the inquiry last year and through this year the students and teachers will collaborate on a visual representation of our key words.
Whose theories is this model is based on: (if possible)
We worked with Dallas Graham from Cognition who is amazing. She helped us design a new curriculum and worked with our stakeholders on what skills and values we wanted our students to have by the time the left year 8. We used ideas from the NZC to help guide our process
Names of the schools or teachers who are using this:
Glenbrook Primary School
See below for our ideas as we built our inquiry model
Our Inquiry planning through 2015(Really god ideas in this shared document)
The one I am most familiar with is the Kath Murdoch version as shown here. Used at Ilam Primary School in Christchurch
Briefly explain the inquiry learning model:
Tuning In, Finding Out, Sorting Out, Going Further, Making Conclusions, Taking Action.
Link to available online materials:
Names of the schools who are using this:
Whenuapai School.
Robots
Had problems coding for the robot because motor was not working - felt some of the frustration that children can experience when they know the stuff they have done is right but things still don't go according to plan!
Info on upcoming assignment
Possible topics
Interested particularly in growth mindset for my fellas
Homework for next week
Ideas for collaborative work with my class - DCL assignment 2
Jiwi's Machines ... machines designed to perform jobs - like making toast etc!
Have children design a Krongiwongi ... work collaboratively to do it
Film a stop motion movie
lego movie maker - or another stop motion programme
Talk about challenges for getting children to work collaboratively.
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